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my husbands eyes are beautiful, there is blue green and brown in them and just breathe taking!! well our son was born with the usual steel gray/blue color and his sisters are telling him that our son isnt his bc of this, he is two and a half months with like a blue/green eye color and it just breaks my heart when they do this stuff. what can i do, bc i KNOW that he is his. ugh, i really cant stand them, one said, if you didnt "look" like your daddy id say you were the mail mans, the other said ah, he dosent look a thing like him and the youngest said is he even his?! like serisouly!

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Oh, and at birth, my oldest had very, very bright blue eyes. My 2nd had dark purple (weird, but very cool) eyes until she was almost 2 months and they turned brown. My 3rd had greenish grey until they turned brown at about 2 weeks old. And my youngest had dark blue-ish gray eyes, which got lighter blue at about 3 months.

If your baby doesn't favor his father, it doesn't mean they aren't related. It means he doesn't look like his father. Simple as that. 3 out of our 4 kids favor me and not my husband. My husband has blue eyes. My oldest has vivid greenish blue eyes with a tiny hazel spot in one eye. My youngest has his dad's shade of blue. The other 2 kiddos have brown eyes like me. My husband and I both have dark brown hair. 1 child has dark blonde, 2 have dark brown, and 1 has light brown with a reddish tint. Genetics are not always predictable. Tell your sis in-laws to keep their opinions to themselves and to go take a class to better understand how genetics work.

His eyes may not be the color of yours or your husband's. Genetics are a little more complex than that. His eyes may turn green, but they may stay blue too and there's still no reason for those remarks. If his sisters had paid attention during high school biology they might know this. Blue is a recessive gene. That's why 2 brown-eyed people can have a blue-eyed baby. My eyes are brown, my husband's are green and our daughter's are bright blue. People make dumb remarks about that all the time. "How did she get blue eyes?" Well, my dad has blue eyes and so does my MIL. So obviously my husband and I both carry the gene for blue eyes. That's how she got them. They're being ignorant and rude. Even if they're just joking, it's not nice.

If his eyes aren't a clear blue that's probably because they will change color. Mine were blue when I was born, they didn't turn green until I was five years old. I would sit your husband down and have a serious talk with him about his sisters behavior. He needs to address it as well as you. I'd sit them all down together, the both of you, and tell them you don't appreciate what they say and, if it continues, neither of you can not be around them. And I would NEVER leave your child alone with them. They sound very toxic. I'd never be emotional around them either. They'll use that. But, if your husband wont stand up for you, sounds like you have an even bigger problem.

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